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Re:I’ve been reading a whole lot about tomatoes by morelisp on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @03:02AM (#28997253)
The bigger warning to any potential potato farmers is to make sure you keep the potatoes underground; any tuber above ground will also have heightened levels of solanine. If they're light-skinned they'll also turn green from chlorophyll, which helps identify them a bit, but better to make sure they're well-buried.

(All my potatoes had a couple fruits this year, but I'm in Germany, so I have no clue if that data is relevant...)

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Re:I’ve been reading a whole lot about tomatoes by tharkun__ on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:47PM (#29007365)
That's a good one that people should know even for potatoes they buy. If green, discard.

But you are right, some people don't.

I think it is relevant because I'm in Canada and even though we now have a total of statistically irrelevant 2 anecdotal data points only it is something. Lots of fruit on potatoes in the same year on different continents more than 5000 km apart on a plant that usually has very few if any fruit at all. My very first years of planting potatoes I did not even have flowers.

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